The print companion to a curatorial project on art and human rights that seeks to make visible the underlying structures and experiences of everyday life in cities of the global south that offer alternative views to the spectularization of narco-violence in the Americas (counterarchives.org). This unique catalog features works by Adriana Corral&Alma Leiva on the counter-archives of Ciudad Juárez in Mexico and San Pedro Sula in Honduras.

"...a mestizaje-of-a-tome—that is: a book that marries words and image, prose and poem: a hybrid work of art as personal and vulnerable and moving as anything I've read in a long while. This is risky writing." -Francisco Aragón

In this hybrid memoir woven between essay, painting, drawing, and poem, a young artist probes his lineage of artists, poets, and cultural activists after the death of his brother, poet Andrés Montoya, and grapples with the cultural legacy of his pioneering Chicano artist father, Malaquias. As he attempts to craft himself into his own image, he questions the ideals of the solitary artist, contemporary Chicano art, the politics of place, and his own memory.

Proceeds from the first 300 books sold will be donated to the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize Initiative - a project of Letras Latinas, the literary initiative at the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

Fully hand-bound with original artwork, Pieces is an exploration of fairytale, of how we experience the world and internalize our actions, of how we recall memory in fragments, rearrange it, lose track of time and place, and put reality together into a form we call life.

The book itself is a fractured narrative, both in story and in touch. Held together by only fabric, Pieces is experienced how the reader chooses.

In his first book in nearly ten years, Doug Rice moves against the silence of paper and dreams in a meditation on desire, a memoir told and untold somewhere between image and word. Undeveloped photographs. Bodies abandoned by reflections. Mirrors gone ecstatic with wanting.

Be guided through time in the Royal Chicano Air Force’s controversial tunnel murals, where you’ll learn to read Chicano hieroglyphics and journey to Sacramento’s past, present and future in 20 minutes or less! You’ll travel through inner and outer space, meet the first peoples of the region and learn to visually assemble and repair geometric shapes into farm worker icons!

El Chale Gallego y'l Xorty, an (almost) silent graphic cuento, follows two vatos from New Mexico and their dog. Laced with humorous and historic undertones, El Chale Gallego y'l Xorty unfolds its loose narrative inside a traditional codex book form to be read from right to left.

This inaugural publication features thirty six sketches by General Esteban Villa of the Royal Chicano Air Force. Published as a deck of flash cards, the collection maps General Villa's daily route through Sacramento.